Two Organizations that Battle Sports Concussions to be Honored with
Santa Clara University’s ETHOS Award for Ethics in Sport

Retired 49ers player Brent Jones, San Jose Sharks COO John Tortora to
present award May 6

March 20, 2014 12:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Santa Clara University’s Institute of Sports Law and Ethics (ISLE) will
award its second-annual ETHOS Award for Ethics in Sports to two
organizations that are using science and persuasion to battle the
epidemic of crippling, sports-related brain trauma.

The 2014 ETHOS Award will be presented to the Sports Legacy Institute
(SLI) and the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic
Encephalopathy (BU CSTE), two pioneering organizations raising awareness
of concussions and providing advanced research and advocacy to effect
major, positive changes in the field of sports medicine and injury
prevention.

Three individuals who are the founders and forces behind SLI and BU CSTE
will accept the award:

*Dr. Robert Cantu, world-renowned neurosurgeon and concussion
expert; co-founder and medical director of SLI, co-founder and
co-director of BU CSTE; clinical professor of neurology and neurosurgery
at the Boston University School of Medicine; author of first
return-to-play guidelines after a concussion, and author of the recent
book Concussions and Our Kids.

*Dr. Ann McKee, co-founder and co-director of the BU CSTE and
professor of neurology and pathology at BU School of Medicine and chief
of the neuropathology service for the New England Veterans
Administration Medical Centers. She has performed groundbreaking
research on over 100 brains of deceased athletes who have suffered from
chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

*Chris Nowinski, co-founder and executive director of SLI,
co-founder and co-director of BU CSTE; a former Harvard University
football player and WWE professional wrestler who was forced to retire
from post-concussion syndrome; author of Head Games, which was
turned into a documentary of the same name and helped bring the dangers
of sports concussions to public attention.

“We are honored to receive this award that shares our lifetime focus of
making sports more ethical and safe,” said Cantu.

The $5,000 award will be presented at a 7 p.m. dinner at Santa Clara
University’s Adobe Lodge on May 6. Representatives of major Bay Area
sports organizations are expected to attend the event, which is expected
to sell out. The award will be presented by Brent Jones, retired tight
end of the San Francisco 49ers, and John Tortora, COO of the San Jose
Sharks. Interested media may attend by RSVP’ing to Deborah Lohse of
SCU Media Relations (dlohse@scu.edu).

The ETHOS prize is an annual award honoring a decision, action,
initiative, or program that has contributed to the ethics of sport in
the United States. For more about the Institute of Sports Law and Ethics
see law.scu.edu/sportslaw.

For more about the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic
Encephalopathy see bu.edu/cte.